Whoever made this picture didn't study carefully what the Bible said. There are two things he didn't understand.

First, there is the reason for the attack. The children said, "Go up, thou bald head." He focused on the reference to Elisha's baldness, but he overlooked completely the meaning of the words "Go up." Shortly before this Elijah had been carried into heaven by God. The children were expressing their disbelief in this by challenging Elisha to go up as Elijah had. This was the reason they were punished.

Second, he pictures the children as being very young. This isn't necessarily the case. When the Israelites refused to enter the promised land because of fear God declared that that generation would die in the wilderness and their children would enter the land instead. Look as exactly what he said, in Numbers 14:29-31:

Quote:Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

Those who will enter the land are called "little ones" which sound as if they were small children, but in fact the term means anyone below the age of 20. The same thing is true of the "little children" who were attacked by the bears. They could in fact have been 18 or 19 years old, which would make them adults by today's standards.

Often when people criticize the Bible it is because they don't understand what it says. When you think that something in the Bible is wrong it would be a good idea to do some research to make sure you really understand it. You can find a lot of good commentaries online here: